“Call Me By Her Name” drag race acting challenge when? Each queen has to cry on command in front of a fireplace. Surprise: they all do amazing. No one goes home. Lip sync for the win.

Mickey 17 is not good.

“We as gay people get to choose our eating disorders.”

I think my issue was that the guy was not believably hot enough for her to risk it all. I understand that she’s getting something else from him, but he’s a rat face (which ok I can go for sometimes), but you’re going to go for that twerp when you’re getting railed by Antonio Banderas on the regs??

Despite me not really liking the movie.

Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.

Spoiler warning, I guess?? I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.

kate bush running past sisyphus

Fordham UP's spring catalogue is out! I'm glad to see my forthcoming monograph there! You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on. Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :) issuu.com/fordhamup/do...

Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”

A big fat meh.

Drag name: Vera Similitude. (Courtesy of my husband)

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

After 42 years, I think I’m finally ready to come out as shallow.

Ok see I read this very differently.

Now is the brat winter of our discontent.

I have a student interested in investigating the concept of the weird. Not the horror/sci fi genre, per se, but rather the disposition/descriptor more generally. Any leads would be appreciated!

How to get access to block lists? I think I would find them helpful but still not quite sure how they work.

Witches of Eastwick ride at Disneyland when??

So, what’s Avital Ronell up to these days?

Remembering the political science professor on Twitter who a little over a year ago was certain--certain!--that the next president would be Ron DeSantis.

Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,326,835! #sad

10000000000% here for Pre-Raphaelite coded Chappell Roan.

Zac Efron

Evergreen.

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...

There should be a core undergraduate course called 'Useless Things' where you just enjoy stuff that cannot possibly be part of a career track.

Should I order y/y?

Just found out that two lovely young people who befriended each other in my Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power course back in 2018 are getting gay married to each other! Seriously a career highlight. As I told them, “See? The marriage plot works!”

First concert: The Allman Brothers Last concert: Madonna Next concert: Chappell Roan (hopefully) Worst: Bob Dylan Loudest: Lizzo Best: Lady Gaga Most surprising: The Chemical Brothers Happy I got to see: Prince Wish I could have seen: Bowie

While walking by the movie theater this morning I passed by two women c. 25 years old. One of them looked me directly in the eye and said in an excited and almost deranged whisper, “Twisters.” The other made eye contact and said, in an equally deranged whisper, “Twisters for the second time.”

Well, I guess it’s gonna be what it’s gonna FUCKING BE then, isn’t it?

Man, where’s a hypothetical republic run by philosopher kings when you need one.

“If you don’t absorb that it’s people in charge of anything it’s really funny” — my scintillating commentary

True confession: Chappell Roan is everything I wanted Taylor Swift to be.

I don’t know if you could pay me enough to watch the presidential debate tonight.

True confession: Chappell Roan is everything I wanted Taylor Swift to be.

When Johns Hopkins is both your publisher and your medical provider, their emails can cause a lot of false excitement.

Some unusual stuff on the Golden Girls

Happy Pride!!!

elder millennialhood is having a facebook profile wall with nothing but 14 years of happy birthday posts from people you haven't seen in over a decade

The bitch is back.

The bitch is back.

Big fish, little fish, swimmin’ in the water / Would you rather gay son or thot daughter?

Big fish, little fish, swimmin’ in the water / Would you rather gay son or thot daughter?

Tell me you’re straight without telling me you’re straight. #happypride